Five Daily Prayers
1,577 questions
Is prayer valid behind an Imam who hums the letter Meem in (عليهم) or Noon in (الضالين) in Al-Fatiha as if they were mushaddadah or close to it?
What is the method for declaring repentance for one who has committed apostasy by insulting religion, and is it valid to pray behind someone who insults religion and then repeats the prayer to attract them?
What should a worshiper do if he discovers his sock is dirty during prayer?
What is a supererogatory prayer and how is it performed?
What is the ruling on praying behind an imam whose proficiency in reciting Al-Fatihah is unknown?
Is it necessary to repeat the ablution, or is it sufficient to wash the area of the madhy for someone who discovers traces of madhy after performing ablution and prayer?
Is Fajr prayer considered void if performed with the intention of timely performance while having misgivings about whether it is a timely or a make-up prayer?
What is the ruling on praying behind an Imam who does not turn his head to the right and left when performing the Taslim?
What is the ruling on the obligatory prayer if the worshiper begins the opening takbeer while standing, and completes it while descending for rukoo‘ (bowing)? Is this a matter of scholarly disagreement, and what is the stronger and weaker opinion on it?
How can a person regain the feeling of faith and the sweetness of obedience after a period of disconnection and misguidance, knowing that he has repented and performs acts of worship, but his heart does not feel faith as it used to?
Should a woman who experiences (vaginal) discharge be treated as one of those with an excuse, ignoring the discharge that appears after the prayer, knowing that nothing came out immediately after istinja (washing after urinating/defecating)? And what is the ruling on suspending the intention to repeat the prayer?
Is the husband's cohabitation with his wife for 14 years and their being blessed with five children, after his saying to her: "If you dye your hair, then you are divorced," considered as taking her back, or does taking her back require the testimony of witnesses, knowing that he never left her except for travels not exceeding a month in most cases?
Do sexual thoughts—reaching the point of imagining touching a man's genitals—invalidate a woman's fast? And does she owe a make-up fast or expiation because of them, especially if she suffers from obsessive-compulsive thoughts and doubts regarding the validity and obligation of fasting?
Do colors placed on the hand, and forgotten to be removed, prevent water from reaching it?
Is zakat obligatory on a golden ornamental palm tree weighing one ton, and what is the amount of this zakat, and what is the difference between what is obligatory (wajib) and an individual religious duty (fard ayn)?
What is the ruling on clothes (trousers, shirt, jacket) and blankets that are used during masturbation or sleeping afterwards, knowing that neither semen nor prostatic fluid reaches them? Is it permissible to perform ghusl and pray in these clothes? Is the prayer valid in them?
Is it permissible for my parents to deal with sorcerers who recite the Quran and speak with jinn, and who asked him to slaughter a rooster and bury its blood, and to use herbs for incense to treat my sister? Is it permissible to pray behind them? And do sorcerers really pray?
Is it obligatory to repeat the prayer when a viscous fluid (thought to be madhy) is discharged after performing ablution and prayer, knowing that it may also be discharged upon looking at women?
Are the obligatory duties (fara'id) numerous and beyond enumeration in Islam? And what are the duties and obligations (fara'id) incumbent upon the Muslim woman and girl? And is it possible to enumerate them and perform them all?
Does continuous passing of wind, with a slight trace remaining on the undergarment, nullify Wudu' and constitute Najasa (impurity) that prevents the validity of prayer?
Is it permissible for a traveler to shorten the Asr prayer after having prayed the Dhuhr prayer in full in his hometown and departed it before the time for Asr began?
Does the prayer become invalid by quickly saying the salutation to the right and left without ṭuma’nīnah (tranquility)?
Is it obligatory to make up for prayers that were performed very quickly over six years, and is it possible to make up for each day with one day given the length of the period?
How can one reconcile the fatwas that permit the validity of prayer despite the deliberate or known exposure of a small part of the awrah during prayer without covering it, with the ruling that mandates repeating the prayer if the worshipper becomes aware of the awrah's exposure and does not cover it? And what is the ruling if the exposure was deliberate?